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Larry Fenson
Researcher at San Diego State University
Publications - 25
Citations - 6462
Larry Fenson is an academic researcher from San Diego State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vocabulary & Language acquisition. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 25 publications receiving 6125 citations.
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Variability in Early Communicative Development
TL;DR: Data from parent reports are used to describe the typical course and the extent of variability in major features of communicative development between 8 and 30 months of age, and unusually detailed information is offered on the course of development of individual lexical, gestural, and grammatical items and features.
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Short-form versions of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories.
TL;DR: The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) as mentioned in this paper are a pair of widely used parent-report instruments for assessing communicative skills in infants and toddlers, and they have been widely used in clinical applications.
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Lexical development norms for young children
Philip S. Dale,Larry Fenson +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper derived month-by-month norms for comprehension and production of 396 words from 8 to 16 months and 680 words from 16 to 30 months from a norming study of 1,789 children between the ages of 8 and 30 months using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (Fenson et al., 1993).
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Developmental and Stylistic Variation in the Composition of Early Vocabulary.
Elizabeth Bates,Virginia A. Marchman,Donna J. Thal,Larry Fenson,Philip S. Dale,J. Steven Reznick,Judy Reilly,Jeff Hartung +7 more
TL;DR: Longitudinal data show that early use of function words (under 400 words) is not related to grammatical levels after the 400-word point, confirming the 'stylistic' interpretation of early closed-class usage.